Improvement in picture-frames



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Picture-Frames.

Patented Dec.10, 1872.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. 4 i

, CHARLES H. HUTCHINSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENITSYLVANIA..

IMPROVEMENT I N PlCTURE-FRAM ES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 133,707, dated December 10, 1872.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. HUToH-. INSON, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Card or Picture Frame, of which the following is a specification:

The object of my invention is a cheap frame,

into which advertising-cards, &c., can be read-.

Very cheap frames, adapted to signs or.

show or advertising cards, may be made of strips of sheet-iron, bent to the sectional form shown in Fig. 3, so as to clamp and confine the card on. The method of hinging these metal strips together is illustrated in Fig. 4,

where it will be observed that the hinge is formed by projections on the strips, bent so as to form eyes for the admission of a pin, h.

The perspective view, Fig. 5, shows another style of frame, of which each section is composed of three strips of wood, I), c, and d, bound together by a strip, 0, of sheet metal, the metal portions of the sections being hinged together in the manner shown in Fig? 4. Greater rigidity may be imparted to frames of this style by a tongue, 0, on one section, entering a recess formed in the adjoining section.-

I claim as my irwentionr A frame, hinged together at the .corners, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth. 7

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

o. H. HUTOHINSON. 

